FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
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Wed Afterparty :Empire Hotel
44 W 63rd St, New York, NY 10023
Wednesday Afterparty: Empire Hotel
Empire Hotel
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 10:00 pm Entrance Free with Wednesday Film Screening Purchase -
Tumbbad
Rahil Anil Barve , Adesh Prasad / 104 mins
India, 19th century: on the outskirts of a decrepit village called Tumbbad lives Vinayak, the stubborn, conniving bastard son of the village lord, obsessed with a mythical ancestral treasure. He suspects the secret lies with his great-grandmother, a cursed witch sleeping for centuries. Confronting her finally puts him face to face with the guardian of the treasure, an evil fallen god. What starts with a few gold coins, quickly spirals into a reckless, perpetual yearning, spanning decades. Vinayak’s greed keeps escalating until he unearths the biggest secret of all, something more valuable than the treasure itself.
Opening Night : Tumbbad (FEATURE)
NYIT Auditorium on Broadway
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 7:30 pm
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Music Teacher
Sarthak Dasgupta / 101 mins
Despite his ambitions to make it big, Beni is still stuck in the hills, bitter and hurt, struggling to make his ends meet by teaching music and singing in clubs. Jyotsna, his estranged student, who had left the hills 8 years back, has now become a celebrity singer in Bollywood. When the town comes alive with the news of Jyotsna coming back for a day to sing in a big music concert, Beni has to come to terms with the pains of his past as well as the delusions of his present, in order to deal with her presence in the hills, and in his life.
Music Teacher (FEATURE)
NYIT Auditorium on Broadway
Friday, December 14, 2018 7:00 pm -
The Imposter Prince (Ek Je Chhilo Raja)
Srijit Mukherji / 150 mins
"Ek Je Chhilo Raja" describes this fascinating story of more than two decades and takes us back to that time when a long extended court case in search of truth made the whole nation stay in awe. Based on the famous “Bhowal Sanyasi” case, the film is a subtle take on what happens when Feudal India meets Spiritual India .
Closing Night: The Imposter Prince(Ek Je Chhilo Raja) (FEATURE)
NYIT Auditorium on Broadway
Sunday, December 16, 2018 6:00 pm
